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:00:00. > :00:00.will round up the snooker results. And Mark Cavendish wins the third ``

:00:00. > :00:18.a third tour. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:19. > :00:21.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Beth Rigby,

:00:22. > :00:25.Deputy Political Editor at the Financial Times and the writer and

:00:26. > :00:38.comedian David Schneider. Tomorrow's front pages. Starting with the

:00:39. > :00:40.arrest of Gerry Adams, on the Telegraph. The Sinn Fein president

:00:41. > :00:44.is being questioned tonight about the murder of Jean McConville in

:00:45. > :00:46.1972. The Mail leads on the same story and suggests the arrest could

:00:47. > :00:49.jeopardise the peace process. According to the Guardian there's

:00:50. > :00:52.been a huge surge in workers tied to zero`hour deals. The main picture is

:00:53. > :00:58.of Jeremy Paxman, who's quitting Newsnight. GPs' leaders have told

:00:59. > :01:02.the Times that hundreds of thousands of patients face losing their family

:01:03. > :01:04.doctor because of funding reforms. The FT has news of government

:01:05. > :01:10.advisers apparently making money during the privatisation of Royal

:01:11. > :01:15.Mail. The Independent's front page shows Bob Hoskins, who's died aged

:01:16. > :01:21.71. The paper calls him the "geezer's geezer". The actor also

:01:22. > :01:24.features on the Metro's front page. The paper's lead story is a warning

:01:25. > :01:36.from the World Health Organization about the effectiveness of

:01:37. > :01:40.antibiotics. Starting with The Daily Mail. Gerry

:01:41. > :01:43.Adams arrested over we do's murder. He has been questioned at the police

:01:44. > :01:47.station tonight and this murder was back in 1972, this woman who

:01:48. > :01:54.disappeared. Gerry Adams has made it clear that he had nothing to do with

:01:55. > :02:00.it. Yes, that's what he is saying. I suppose, for me as an Englishman

:02:01. > :02:03.away from it all, it is so easy to get misty eyed about what happened

:02:04. > :02:05.in Northern Ireland. Martin McGuinness was with the Queen,

:02:06. > :02:09.things we couldn't have imagined back in the 70s. It is very

:02:10. > :02:13.affecting but I was in Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago and it

:02:14. > :02:18.is just there underneath the surface. People. What worries me

:02:19. > :02:23.here is that when you hear the details about this, it's a terrible

:02:24. > :02:30.thing. `` underneath the surface for some people. It will bring up bad

:02:31. > :02:34.feelings that's just beneath the surface for some people. Some people

:02:35. > :02:37.say this accusation has been bubbling around for some years and

:02:38. > :02:49.there is some political implication on the timing of it. But it's a

:02:50. > :02:54.worry because things have moved on but the temptation is to revisit

:02:55. > :02:58.those old wounds. Sure. The unionists argue that to a degree

:02:59. > :03:03.they haven't done that well out of the peace process. On some fronts,

:03:04. > :03:06.particularly in their eyes in getting those IRA members who they

:03:07. > :03:12.believe were responsible for murders and killings and shootings and so

:03:13. > :03:19.forth. They would say that this is a good night tonight, that Gerry Adams

:03:20. > :03:23.has been arrested, but Peter Taylor who has covered this conflict for

:03:24. > :03:26.many years says Gerry Adams has been arrested hundreds of times on a

:03:27. > :03:30.number of issues and has never been charged. It interesting you say

:03:31. > :03:34.that. In terms of how this came about, it was because Gerry Adams

:03:35. > :03:42.was indicated by a former IRA man, who has now died, in this Boston

:03:43. > :03:48.College where he names Gerry Adams as the man who gave the direct order

:03:49. > :03:54.to kill Jean McConville, who I didn't realise but she was actually

:03:55. > :03:58.a widow who had ten children. It is tragic. By all accounts, she was

:03:59. > :04:04.dragged away from her children out of the house. Awful. Sinn Fein have

:04:05. > :04:13.said that their view is that this... The fact this has come up

:04:14. > :04:16.now is actually because the individuals are going to great

:04:17. > :04:21.lengths to try to uncover it because of what you said, caused their is a

:04:22. > :04:25.feeling that there are things that have happened in the past that

:04:26. > :04:31.haven't been properly dealt with and that basically the Republicans have

:04:32. > :04:34.got away with it. And so, yes, probably there is some element of

:04:35. > :04:40.feeling like maybe it is time to have some retribution. There isn't a

:04:41. > :04:43.balance between the absolutely understandable need for justice and

:04:44. > :04:51.knowing what happens to the victims and the peace process and I think

:04:52. > :04:59.that's what the comfort letters are about, the amnesty, negotiated as

:05:00. > :05:05.part of the agreement. It is how you balance bringing up the past and

:05:06. > :05:12.those animosities with justice. The desperate situation that it was in.

:05:13. > :05:17.Is interesting, the way the papers have covered it. Partly because it's

:05:18. > :05:20.a braking and astonishing story, people are just beginning to see

:05:21. > :05:25.what the locations could be. But the Telegraph have written it really

:05:26. > :05:37.straight. The Mail, their take on it has been the fourth paragraph. ``

:05:38. > :05:43.the applications could be. Full is `` it happens on both sides. The new

:05:44. > :05:50.breed the details and you think, of course anyone connected will that

:05:51. > :05:56.will want justice. `` then you read the details. Gerry Adams has been

:05:57. > :06:01.arrested but he has made it clear over a number of years and tonight

:06:02. > :06:07.that he had nothing to do with the murder of Jean McConville back in

:06:08. > :06:11.1972. Going on to the FT. Does it look as if this whole thing is

:06:12. > :06:18.beginning to unravel? First of all the allegation is it was flogged off

:06:19. > :06:22.to cheaply, then it was flogged to long`term investors. Quite a lot of

:06:23. > :06:28.them sold their shares and made a killing within days or weeks. Now

:06:29. > :06:32.this? You have hit the nail on the head. The issue was the

:06:33. > :06:37.government's defence on the sale of Royal Mail, the shares went up

:06:38. > :06:43.nearly four `` 40% on the day of trading. There was a profit of ?750

:06:44. > :06:47.million on the share rate, which would have gone to the taxpayer had

:06:48. > :06:51.the deal being priced differently. It has turned out that there were 16

:06:52. > :06:58.investors that the government said were launched on investors, as you

:06:59. > :07:04.said, who were meant to hold on to the shares, and it turns out that 12

:07:05. > :07:11.of them sold their shares very quickly, some of them after the

:07:12. > :07:14.sale. What's more, Vince Cable released these names under duress

:07:15. > :07:18.today. The government have resisted releasing the names, saying the

:07:19. > :07:24.legal requirements meant they couldn't but they did release them.

:07:25. > :07:29.The names is management. They had an allegation of shares. The investment

:07:30. > :07:36.bank advised the government on the sale. Just to be clear, financial

:07:37. > :07:42.institutions do have Chinese walls, whereby the investment banking arm

:07:43. > :07:48.cannot talk to the asset and madame. Are completely separate

:07:49. > :07:54.organisations. `` asset arm. Gravitationally this looks bad for

:07:55. > :07:59.the government and this sale was meant to be the crowning glory of

:08:00. > :08:05.Vince Cable's tenure ship. `` in terms of reputation, this looks bad.

:08:06. > :08:11.This story really shocked me. I am surprised they didn't want this

:08:12. > :08:18.revealed. Everything about the Royal Mail thing, the government doesn't

:08:19. > :08:27.know the price of milk, bread or the Royal Mail. The completely undersold

:08:28. > :08:30.it. Maybe by ?1 billion? Imagine what it would do for the NHS. It

:08:31. > :08:38.seems to have gone to their friends, his long`term investors. In terms of

:08:39. > :08:47.mayfly it is long`term. I do have a bit of sympathy, to put the

:08:48. > :08:51.government's case across. It was a difficult thing to pull this off

:08:52. > :08:56.because if they had... If they had overpriced shares and retail

:08:57. > :09:00.investors have bought in and Royal Mail staff had had shares and they

:09:01. > :09:05.all had losses, it would have been absolutely awful. So they had to

:09:06. > :09:13.price it in a way that there was an uptick... It had to be tempting. But

:09:14. > :09:16.not 40%. You are presuming they had to do it. If you are going to float

:09:17. > :09:24.something, you tend to under call it. There was no reason to float

:09:25. > :09:26.it. We have seen how wonderful privatisation is with the

:09:27. > :09:30.utilities. Why float it? They needed the money. It seems that a lot of

:09:31. > :09:34.their friends, a lot of big businesspeople, have done very well.

:09:35. > :09:42.Good mac also, other Secretaries of State, other business Secretary of

:09:43. > :09:48.State, people have tried to do this. `` also. It was a success... There

:09:49. > :09:52.is a bigger argument about whether governments should own industries or

:09:53. > :09:56.not. If you say they shouldn't, they did restructure the business, they

:09:57. > :10:02.got it away and they made a profit. You know, Cameron took a hammering

:10:03. > :10:08.from Labour. I think they are going to keep digging in a mess. And not

:10:09. > :10:13.just Cameron but Vince Cable will have problems with this. Under the

:10:14. > :10:20.Times. Patients at risk as GPs face forced shutdown. It isn't looking

:10:21. > :10:26.good for the government. Privatisation, we were told they

:10:27. > :10:29.would be no top`down reorganisation of the NHS before the election and

:10:30. > :10:32.there has been a top`down reorganisation, at the same time as

:10:33. > :10:38.money being cut. Now it seems the latest catastrophic meltdown, the

:10:39. > :10:42.quote GP leaders say, is in surgeries. They say there would be

:10:43. > :10:45.enough money for GPs because of what the government calls a tidy up in

:10:46. > :10:51.the complex payment system. That could mean that several... 98

:10:52. > :10:58.practices could close, almost 100 practices could close. We lurch from

:10:59. > :11:03.crisis to crisis with the NHS. The government must have been so pleased

:11:04. > :11:07.that there wasn't a flu epidemic, that we had a mild winter, from that

:11:08. > :11:13.point of view. It just makes you feel that they need to address the

:11:14. > :11:19.underfunding in the health service. They are so hands off, the patient

:11:20. > :11:26.is ill and their solution seems to be to lock bit off the patient and

:11:27. > :11:30.sell it. This is an interesting story because there has been the

:11:31. > :11:37.whole NHS reorganisation and the wheels haven't come off. As you

:11:38. > :11:43.said. They haven't. There haven't been big moments... Like a flu

:11:44. > :11:48.epidemic, where suddenly there is chronic underfunding. This, to me,

:11:49. > :11:54.is really dangerous for the government. The whole thing is that

:11:55. > :11:58.Labour were always trusting of the NHS and the Tories never did. David

:11:59. > :12:02.Cameron managed to turn that around, partly because he obviously

:12:03. > :12:10.used the service with his own late son, who sadly died. But he was a

:12:11. > :12:15.really big back of the NHS and they turned their reputation around. They

:12:16. > :12:22.do not want to go into an election with people beginning to think

:12:23. > :12:28.that... It remains, you know, the big concern for voters. People love

:12:29. > :12:42.it. They care about it and do not want to see the service depleted.

:12:43. > :12:47.The Master inquisitor announces departure from the late show for a

:12:48. > :12:53.new night. It feels like the end of an era. I was suspicious when he

:12:54. > :13:15.grew his beard, when you are tired of shaving for work, you are tired

:13:16. > :13:23.of life at the BBC. . I am always bright and perky. I have some of his

:13:24. > :13:31.most famous interviews here. He was asked 12 times if he had threatened

:13:32. > :13:38.to overrule, it takes nerves of steel to do that doesn't it? Not if

:13:39. > :13:42.you have nothing else to say. He admitted that they were supposed to

:13:43. > :13:53.go to a tape and that it wasn't ready. He got an award for that, for

:13:54. > :14:01.asking the question 13 times. And then there was the Chloe Smith

:14:02. > :14:06.interview. I felt sorry for her. She had to defend the indefensible. You

:14:07. > :14:18.hang out with all of these politicians every day. He must be so

:14:19. > :14:24.happy that he is going `` they. I would imagine especially the younger

:14:25. > :14:29.lot who are more seasoned in the political answer, it will be

:14:30. > :14:38.terrified if they have to go on his show and be up against him. Why

:14:39. > :14:45.wouldn't you be? He has been so difficult. I don't know how they're

:14:46. > :14:56.going to replace him. Maybe they just won't bother. It will be Ryan

:14:57. > :15:02.Giggs as an interim presenter. We will now go to the front of the

:15:03. > :15:10.Independent, a fantastic actor, Bob Hoskins has died at the age of 71.

:15:11. > :15:17.He described himself as a short, fat, broken middle`aged man with a

:15:18. > :15:34.big nose and a bald head. I remember him as a teenager. The Long Good

:15:35. > :15:38.Friday was such a fantastic movie. There is that fantastic scene when

:15:39. > :15:49.he has all the gangsters out on the meat hooks and yelled at them. Just

:15:50. > :15:52.his face, absolutely brilliant. I never actually worked with him,

:15:53. > :15:59.which was sad but I have always heard that he is a lovely man.

:16:00. > :16:04.Everyone says that when someone passes but I have heard that that is

:16:05. > :16:12.true and yet he seemed so dangerous on screen and on stage and that was

:16:13. > :16:28.a real quality. Such quality. It has been great having you many thanks

:16:29. > :16:37.``, But coming up next it's time for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to

:16:38. > :16:40.Sportsday. More Tears for Terry... It's Atletico through to the

:16:41. > :16:46.Champions League Final. There'll be no World Cup for Andros Townsend.

:16:47. > :16:49.The England winger needs surgery. And a century of century's in a

:16:50. > :16:50.season, that's a record for Robertson